The Rolling Stones - Rock And A Hard Place - OFFICIAL PROMO

What this video is

Released in November 1989, 'Rock and a Hard Place' arrived as the second single from Steel Wheels, the Rolling Stones' comeback album following years of internal friction and solo career detours for both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The Steel Wheels Tour — the band's first major touring cycle in eight years — was a high-stakes cultural event, and this video, shot across three sold-out nights at Sullivan Stadium,…

Why it matters

A canonical late-period Rolling Stones video representing the commercial and cultural peak of the late-1980s arena rock MTV cycle. The video exemplifies the live-performance promo format that dominated rock video production in 1988–1991, and is one of the defining examples of Wayne Isham's…

The director

Wayne Isham (born December 2, 1958, Vinita, Oklahoma) is an American music video and film director who attended the University of California, Santa Barbara in the 1970s. Citing David Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes' as his career inspiration, he became one of the…